Posted on 10/16/2016 5:55:50 AM PDT by george76
Navajo Nation locals joined Utah lawmakers Sept. 21 to express opposition to any attempt to designate land around the Bears Ears site in southeastern Utah as a national monument.
The Navajo residents of San Juan County, Utah, joined their elected officials who said the decision on the 1.9-million acre site, which is sacred to the Navajo people, should be left in local hands.
We have managed to protect this enchanted place, and we will continue to do so, Susie Philemon said.
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Lewis Singer, a Navajo from San Juan County, said monument status would restrict access of Native people to gather firewood and hunt game critical for their survival. He prefers another option.
I think that there is still concern with PLI (the Public Lands Initiative), but that would be probably a better solution than going with the designation, he said. We could probably work things out if those issues that were a concern were remedied.
(Excerpt) Read more at nhonews.com ...
We are all Navajos now. Hands-off, D.C.
Same as it ever was.......
Is there something there the U.S. can sell to it’s enemies?
Federal Gubmint steals land from Indians again, film at 11.
The U.N. will get right on this. /s
The F.B.I. will keep the peace when the demonstrations and occupations start.
Dasboot’s Blackfoot blood heats up.
No. Wait!
‘To stop Trump from ever building a casino there.
That’s the ticket!
Bill Clinton closed high quality, clean , low sulfur coal mining nearby so that his pals , the Riady family, got a windfall from their holdings in Asia. In trade for cash to the Clinton Foundation. Killed good paying, rural, local jobs in Utah.
Similar here. Some mining. Farmers and communities also need water to survive. Like Tombstone, Az. ; cut off the water, then they die.
Plus other issues.
There was a Bundy, part 2, protest ride against the federal government land grabbers.
Not as widely reported as the Bundy ranch in Nevada or Oregon ( part 3 ).
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=29840688
The article in the link paints Obama and Holder as hero’s.
But their motives were to glean block voting from the Indian Nations, and paint themselves as white knights to crunchy liberals. And it cost the administration nothing. ‘The people’ paid the judgement.
Great Half-White Father in Washington steal land from tribe!
Back off the Navajos, you UN SOBs and traitors to the Republic!
True, tough to find anything other than Enemedia junk.
Also, 500,000 acres of federal land to the tribes .
https://www.yahoo.com/news/feds-500-000-acres-land-returned-tribes-under-184744940.html
Wonder when the progressives will give Chicago to a tribe ?
LOL:
Analysis: The Federal Government give; the Federal Government taken away. (according to their greatest benefit at the time)
But as long as it doesn't mess up TV'''
New tag
Amended...
I remember a Native American bumper sticker: “Think you can trust the government to keep its word? Ask an Indian”.
Again?
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